[IP] Groups Say U.S. Imposed National Book Ban
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From: Jim Warren <jwarren@xxxxxxxx>
Date: September 28, 2004 2:12:18 PM EDT
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Subject: fwd: Groups Say U.S. Imposed National Book Ban
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POSTED: 7:25 am EDT September 28, 2004
NEW YORK -- Several organizations representing publishers and authors
are suing the federal government saying it's blocking the works of
authors in countries such as Cuba, Iran and Sudan from reaching the
United States.
In the lawsuit in Manhattan federal court, the groups asked a federal
judge to remove government rules that block the free exchange of
information and ideas.
The lawsuit notes that authors in those countries already work under
government restrictions and blamed the U.S. Treasury Department's
Office of Foreign Assets Control for, in effect, extending "foreign
censorship to the United States."
The office was named as a defendant because it enforces U.S. trade
embargo rules requiring publishers to obtain licenses to edit articles
and books by authors in some other countries.
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